Neil Simon Theatre

Opened 1927
250 West 52nd Street

Built as the Alvin Theatre, named for
ALex A. Aarons and VINton Freedley. Renamed for playwright Neil Simon in 1983. Notable
productions include: Funny Face (1927), Spring is Here (1929), Girl Crazy (1930),
Music in the Air (1932), Anything Goes (1934), Porgy and Bess (1935), Red Hot and Blue (1936),
I'd Rather Be Right (1937), Boys from Syracuse (1938), Very Warm for May (1939),
Lady in the Dark (1941), Hollywood Pinafore (1945), Life With Father (1947),
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951), House of Flowers (1954), Bells are Ringing (1958),
Once upon a Mattress (1959), A Funny Thing...Forum (1962),
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967), Company (1970), Shenandoah (1975),
Annie (1977), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983),
Biloxi Blues (1985), Hairspray (2002).